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At the unveiling of the Confederate Monument in Paris, 
O- October 13, 1900, Governor Jas. D. Porter spoke as follows : 

Ladies of the Monumental Association, Comrades Fellow Citizens: 
I recognize the position to which I have been assigned as 
one ot distinction, and I owe thanks to the Ladies of the Asso- 
ciation for the selection. And I thank you, ladies, in the name 
of my comrades, living and dead, for providing thi.; memorial. 

Without your aid and earnestness, without your patriotism and 
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loving devotion this work, so long projected, would have re- 
mained undone. Your love and devotion to the cause and to 
the men who fought the battles of the South has found expres- 
sion in the erection of this monument. You have followed the 
example of all civilized people — Assyrian, Indian, Greek or 
Roman — in this expression of gratitude and admiration. You 
peak to posterity through this marble in a language commem- 
orative of the heroism of the soldiers of Henry County at the 
same time you illustrate your own admiration for devotion to 
duty under circumstances of the greatest trial. The war be- 
tween the States was not promoted by the men of Henry 
County, they were conservative and peaceful. War to them 
was terrible to contemplate, but they were not afraid of it or 
of its sacrifices. "They loved peace as they abhored pusilan- 
imity, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more de- 
• structive of the manhood of living.men than war is destiuctive 
of his material body. Chains are worse than bayonets." The 
men of Henry were the sons and grandsons ot Virginia and 
North Carolina; their ancestors fought at Yorktown and King's 
Mountain, and were with Jackson at New Orleans. They had 
heard the stories of these great events from the pioneers, and 
were familiar with the trials 2nd hardships of the cheerless days 
of the American Revolution. They had learned that in a re- 
public the liberty of the citizen and his rights of property must 
be asserted in the courts of the country, or at the ballot box, 



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and failing here, a resort to arms was the logical consequence. 
Up to the year 1 86 1 secession was more than an open 
question; few thoughtful Southern men denied the right of the 
State to withdraw from the Federal Union ; the wisdom of its 
exercise was another question But this right under the Con- 
stitution as understood and construed can not be gainsaid. So 
when it was exercised by States sojjth of us, without consulta- 
tion or reference to us, the people of Tennessee condemned the 
action as hasty and ill-advised, and still no Southern man chal- 
lenged the act, and not one consented to the doctrine that 
there was legal warrant for the Federal authorities to compel 
obedience to them. Tennessee declared at an early day, 
months before her own formal withdrawal from the Union, that 
if the rule of force was applied to one State it would be accept- 
ed by her people as an act of war. The people of the South 
is and was a homogenous race. A common ancestry with cus- 
toms and institutions alike created a brotherhood stronger than 
the Union of States. So when President Lincoln called for 
troops and inaugurated war against South Carolina and other 
seceding States there was no delay or hesitation, no postpone- 
ment for advice from leaders. The men of Henry upon their 
own motion rushed to arms. This action was a response to the 
lesson evolved from their education ; a sense of duty controlled 
them ; their judgments and hearts approved it, and before God 
and the tribunal of history we have no apology to offer. We 
made our history honestly and conscientiously, and we will 
write it truthfully as we made it, the protest of the "Grand 
Army of the Republic'" to the contrary notwithstanding. We 
want no accommodating committee to compromise our history, 
or to sugarcoat facts unpalatable to the sensibilities of men who 
will not accord honesty of purpose to the men of the South. 
We want posterity to know how our history was made; that it 
was done deliberately and voluntarily, and that we put our lives 
and fortunes to the touchstone of battle, and thus gave to the 



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world the highest evidence of our sincerity. Henry County 

furnished a larger number of soldiers (or the war, in proportion 
to white population, than any county in the State. They were 
earnest, brave men, full of dash and steadiness, responsive to 
discipline, with wonderful power to overcome fatigue, and to 
resist the rigor of winter and the heat of summer. Meagre 
rations were accepted without complaint ; our surroundings were 
appreciated by all. There was no hope of foreign assistance, 
and no expectation of success unless it could be won on the 
battlefield. The Federal Government had men, money and 
munitions of war, and there was no limit to the supply. The 
Confederate States did not have a current dollar; when a soldier 
was killed or disabled there was no one to take his place. When 
a Federal soldier met the same tate a dozen recruits were sent 
forward. The army of Tennessee killed and disabled more 
men of Sherman's army than we had on our muster-rolls, yet 
Sherman was stronger in numbers when he reached Atlanta 
than when he moved against Rocky Face Ridge 100 days be- 
fore that date, after fighting a battle almost every day. No 
recruits came to the Confederates; there was no nation or peo- 
ple upon whom we could call for help; ours was the orphan 
nation of the world, poor, naked and hungry. As time passed 
hardships multiplied; the clothing of the men and the rations 
upon which they were fed were growing lighter in weight; am- 
munition was no longer abundant; the country was exhausted; 
pinching cold and hunger and poverty was in every household. 
To these conditions we at last succumbed. The men of Henry 
stood by the flag to the last ; they participated in every battle 
of the Southwest. From Belmont to Bentonville they fell "on 
the red sand of the battlefield with bloody corpses strewn," and 
hundreds of them sleep in unmarked graves, but they are not 
forgotten. The stars may go down but there is no oblivion for 
"ood or brave deeds. 



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ORGANIZATIONS IN WHICH THE MEN OF HENRY 
COUNTY FOUGHT. 

First in date was the company recruited by Capt. Edward 
Fitzgerald, of which W. B. Yowell, Chas. D. Cooney and Fitz- 
gerald Williams were Lieutenants. The Captain hastened to 
Memphis and entered with the 134th, the senior regiment of 
Tennessee. 

Soon the 5th Tennessee infantry as organized with Col. W. 
E. Travis, Lieut Col. J. D. C. Atkins, Maj. W. C. Swor, Dr. 
R. T. Clark, Surgeon; Dr. F. F. Porter, Assistant Surgeon; 
Calvin D. Venable, Adjutant; Hugh P. Dunlap, Sergeant Ma- 
jor, as the field and staff officers. Surgeon Clark resigned after 
a few months' service, and the Assistant Surgeon resigned after 
a brief service. Dr. Jo. H. Porter, Captain of Company F, was 
made Surgeon and served until after the battle of Shiloh. Dr. 
T. C. Harcourt was made Assistant Surgeon, but resigned after 
a brief service. First Lieut. H. T. Blanton succeeded Surgeon 
Porter as Captain of Company F. 

In the following autumn the 46th infantry, another Henry 
County regiment, was organized with Col. Jno. M. Clark, Lieut. 
Col. J. Wm. Johnson, and Major Jas. S. Brown as field officers, 
with S H. Caldwell, as Surgeon; Thos Taliaferro, as Assistant 
Surgeon, and Isaac M. Hudson, Regimental Adjutant. 

About the same time Capt. Felin F. Aden recruited a 
company of mounted men which constituted Company — of the 
7th Tennessee cavalry. 

Later on Capt. D. F\ Alexandsr recruited a mounted com- 
pany which subsequently became Company — of the Tennessee 
cavalry commanded by Capt. Clinton Aden. 

Lieut. Col. Henry C. Greer recruited a battallion of cavalry. 
The Henry County companies were commanded by Capt. VV. 
D. Hallum and Capt. M. H. Freeman. 



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Capt Thos. H. Tayloe organized Co. — of the — Ten- 
nessee cavalry. 

On the organization of the 33d Tennessee infantry Henry 

. C. McNeih was made its Major and Pomp Marberry one of its 

Captains. At Murfreesboro Capt. Marberry was wounded and 

disabled from marching with his company but he joined it on 

the field and commanded it with distinction at Chickamauga. 

THE ARTILLERY. 

Capt. Thos. Kennedy Porter commanded Porter's battery. 
Finis E. White was a Lieutenant in Carnes' battery. 
Alonzo Pillow was a Lieutenant in Hume's heavy battery. 
John H. Duniap was a Sergeant in Morton's battery. 
J.T. Postlethwaite was a Sergeant in Rucker's heavy hattery. 
Lieut. Geo McNeill, Lieut. 3d Co. Washington artillery. 

HELMONT. 
It was here that our troops learned something of the reali 
ties of the battlefield. Alter the field had been sub- 

stantially lost, and Grant had driven a large per cent, of our 
men to cover, the 154th, with other regiments, were hur- 
ried across the Mississippi river to re inforce Gen. Pillow. 
Fitzgerald's company participated in the final struggle and pur- 
suit of Grant's forces and rendered important service; detached 
and put upon our left flank, in observation, it captured prison- 
ers, and in the final combat James McCartey was killed, John 
L. Bennett was wounded and lost a leg, and James Cameron 
was severely wounded. D. F. Alexander, John H. Porter and 
Robert Tyler, of the 5 ih Tennessee, without authority, joined 
the pursuing column and participated in the final attack. Tyler 
was killed, John H. Porter survived and fought at Shiloh where 
he was killed. Alexander became a Lieutenant and afterwards 
a Captain of cavalry. In Wheeler's disastrous attack on Dover 
Capt. Alexander led his men with the greatest gallantry, he 
was shot down on the field and disabled for twelve months. On 



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his recovery he joined Gen. Lyon's command and rendered 
valuable service. 

NEW MADRID. 

The 5th constituted a part of the garrison at this place, 
where it was constantly engaged on the skirmish line and in 
minor combats. It was here that that gallant soldier, Capt. W. 
D. Hallum, received what was considered a mortal wound, but 
he survived it to be wounded again and again, and was with 
Forrest in all of his battles and combats, and, thank God, he is 
with us to-day The 5th was relieved at New Madrid in time to 
join Gen Albert Sidney Johnston at 

SHILOH. 

Here the men of Henry were to be put upon their mettle, 
they were to meet the victors of Fort Henry and Fort Donel 
son, and learn the lesson of war irom two masters of the art, 
Johnston and Grant. They were to meet trained and disciplined 
soldiers, strangers to defeat. In his battle order, Gen. John- 
ston said to his troops, "I have put you in motion to offer bat- 
tle to the invaders of your country." Our troops were drilled 
and disciplined and had confidence in their great leader and in 
themselves. Lt. Col. C. D. Venable was commanding the 5th, 
Col. Travis had resigned on account of failing health, and Lt. 
Col. Atkins had been chosen by the people as their representa- 
tive in the Confederate Congress. Capt. Fitzgerald had been 
made Major of his regiment and was succeeded in the com- 
mand of his company by Capt. W. B. Yowell. In the battle 
of the 5th of April the 5th was as conspicuous as any body of 
troops on the field, it bore a prominent part, perhaps the most 
prominent of any organization in the capture of Prentiss' divis- 
ion of Federal troops. A Federal stand of colors was captured 
by L. L. Milam. While Yowell's company shared the glory 
of the 154th regiment in Cheatham's charge on Sherman's di- 
vision, and in the capture of one of his four gun batteries. 



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Both commands were with Cheatham on the 9th in his famous 
charge on McCook's corps; refering to it in his official report, 
Gen. Polk said it "was made under the eye of the Commander 
in Chief and his staff) and drew forth expressions of the most 
unqualified applause." Gen. Polk refered in glowing terms to 
the "brilliant courage" of the 51I1. Venable and Fitzgerald 
won their spurs on this field, and in a few week were promot- 
ed to the command of their regiments. Capt. Yowell led his 
company with undaunted courage, he was badly wounded and 
disabled for life. Others wounded were Capt. 1 hos. H. Con- 
way, mortally. Capt. Thos. H. Conway led his company with 
conspicuous courage, his wound was apparently a very slight 
one, so slight that he would not have himself reported among 
the wounded. But in a lew days his comrades were shocked 
at the intelligence of the death of this promising soldier. Capt. 
J. P. Cooper, Lieut. James Haynes, James E. Daniel, J. B. 
Olive, W. D. Whittaker, J. B. Milam. John A. Melton, John 
Thompson, Edward Gainer, C. W. Burgess, W. W. Rust, D. 
Bradley, T. J. Miller, Mai McLeod, W. C. Nored, Aaron 
Murrell, R. D. McCutchen, Alvin Dugger, Polk Alexander, 
Jo Thompson, Wilson Myrick, Otto Sneed, Thos. Lamb, L. 
A. Morphis, Randolph Kay, Thos. Paschall, W. M. Wimbush, 
W. D. Gordon, H. M. Murrell, Alex McMillin, G. W. Up- 
church, Crofford Key and Fletcher Ethridge were wounded, 
some reported as mortally. 

Among the killed was Lieut. J.L. Bowman, Jno. Porter, Jno. 
Atkins, James Bouie, John Turbeville, Ed Rawls, Matt Thom- 
as, Thos. Spain, T. B. Wilson, Alex McMullins, John O'Brien, 
Martin Simpson, Henderson Liles, Perry Murrell, W 7 m. Gor- 
don, Press Alexander, John Covington, John Patterson, Jessee 
Mathis, John Scott, Wm. Bushart and Robert Tevis. 

Those of us who participated in this battle saw victory in 
every movement made, and even after the untimely death ot 
Gen. Johnston, and the arrival on the field of another Federal 



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army under Buell, we were driving the enemy from our front. 
After a few weeks at Corinth, crowded with skirmishes and 
combats, the Confederate Commander in Chief decided to trans- 
fer his army to Kentucky. The 154th was with the advance 
under Gen Kirby Smith. At Richmond, Ky., he gave battle 
to the Federal army under Gen. Nelson, and captured it with 
its arms and trains. Just before the battle opened a sharpshoot- 
er signalled out Fitzgerald and fired, and the gallant Colonel fell 
dead. He was an imposing man in appearance, handsome, 
gifted in man)' ways, and was a gallant soldier. The only other 
casualty in his old company, now ably commanded by Captain 
Chas. D. Cooney, was the death of Downing Dunlap. 

PERRYVILLR. 

Where Tennessee carried off the honors of the battle was 
soon to follow. It was a battle royal from the opening gun to 
the close when our troopj took and occupied the field. The 
5th sustained the credit won at Shiloh. Col. Venable was seri 
ously injured from a fall from his horse, but never left the field, 
and with his regiment mounted the steep and difficult cliffs of 
Chaplin river and helped to win the battle. As the 5th advanced 
across a deep ravine, up an almost impassable cliff, a stone 
fence of solid masonry was encountered, Lieut. Wes. Harris 
like an athlete leaped over it, Capt. Cooper cried out "Reb" 
heip me over, he reached out and lifted the Captain over, others 
cried out to him for help, he assisted a number over, and then 
said "boys I would like to help all of you, but Gen. Cheatham 
has ordered us to take that battery on the hill, and I must go." 
The boys fought their way up the hill, drove a Federal line of 
battle back, took the battery, advanced and drove the second 
line back on a third line. But the 5th paid for its success. 
Lieut. Col. Swor had his horse killed, but advanced on foot, 
with the regiment. Capt. Gillette, Lieut. Killabrew, Lieut. 
Tucker, Samuel Archer, Charles McGehee, Henry Askew, 
Thomas Oliver, Jo Oliver, Andrew Thompson, iMatthcw 



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Thompson. Robert Harris, J. G. Kennerly, J. J. Stroud, J. 
VV. Aruett and others were killed. Capt. John T. Irion, Capt. 
J. P. Cooper. Capt John W. Harris. Lieut. A. M. Milliken, 
H. M. Thompson, Alex Farris (lost an arm), W. A. Thomp- 
son, Tip Allen, G. W. Svvor, Wm. Brake, Eldridge Carter, J. 
B. Jones, J. H. Malone, Peter Capote, F. M. Wimberly, Ma- 
rion Gross, B. A Haygood. W. A. Alexander, J. L. Lem- 
onds and James Miller were wounded, and many were disabled 
for life. 

J. B. Jones, the color bearer, afterwards a well known phy- 
sician, fell with a broken leg. As he touched the ground he 
delivered the flag to Ab. Dinwiddie, one of the color guard. 
He said, the bearer of our colors has fallen once before this, 
but the flag has never gone down. Dinwiddie replied as he 
hurried forward with the advancing line, "have no fear, I will 
try to do my duty." 

A touching incident occurred when Columbus Thompson, 
of Capt. Wayne Caldwell's company received his mortal 
wound He said "tell my mother where and how I fell," and 
drawing his galiant Captain down, kissed his cheek and died. 
The kiss was for the mother who sat in her distant home with 
tearful eyes waiting and watching for her boy who would never 
return. 

Calvin D. Venable died on the 30th of December, 1862, 
the day before the battle of Murfreesboro. No officer of his 
rank was more distinguished, and the truth of history compels 
the statement that he gave the 5th Tennessee regiment its rep- 
utation. It was his leadership that warranted Gen. Polk to re- 
fer to it as "the brave 5th Tennessee." He was modest and 
unassuming, he did not affect the pomp and circumstance of 
flwar, he was content to execute and obey orders. He was not 
'in battle after Perryville, the glory won on that field and at 
Shiloh filled the measure of a soldier's ambition. 

Captains Harris, Irion and Cooper were three of the best 



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officers in a division of troops, where an inferior one was the 
exception. Harris was permanently disabled, Irion was disabled 
for service in the field, and Cooper was seriously injured. Har- 
ris and his company belonged to the 46th Tennessee, but served 
with the 5th at Perryville. He was on detached service at the 
surrender of the 46th regiment by Gen. Mackall. 

Cheatham's Division captured three of the enemies bat- 
teries in the open field after driving McCook's corps from their 
support. Gen. Bragg in a special order authorized the regi- 
ments participating in the capture to place the name, "Perry- 
ville, with the cross cannon inverted" on their colors. No suc- 
cess of the war was equal to this. The 5th proudly wore this 
distinction. 

On the return of Bragg's army to Tennessee, Houston 
Taylor, a private of the 5th, was permitted by his commanding 
officer to halt and rest at a house in the mountains of Kentucky. 
He was in poor health but well enough to march and rest at 
intervals. In company with a comrade, whose name is un 
known, he was captured and killed. First their persons were 
mutilated, then they were killed and their naked bodies hanged 
to a tree. At this juncture, Col. J. H. Sharpe, of Mississippi, 
commanding the rear guard, came up, caught the pine murder- 
ers flagrante delicto, took their confessions and ordered their 
immediate execution. Telegraph wire was substituted for 
rope and the fiends met swift justice and were hanged until they 
were dead. Houston Taylor was a good man and a brave sol- 
dier who had been named with honor for conduct at Perryville. 
He was a brother of Dr. Frank Taylor, a well known citizen, 
who was a private of the 5th and was wounded in battle 

THE 46TH TENN. INFANTRY 

Was for some time at Island 10, where Wm. Housden and 
Lafayette Bowden were killed under fire of the gun boats. 
Atterwards the regiment was sent down in the bend of the 



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river and placed under the command of Gen Mackall, and was 
surrendered with him, and imprisoned at camp Chase and at 
Johnson Island. In September, 1862, the regiment was ex 
changed and reorganized. J. S. Dawson was made Colonel, 
Robt. A. Owen, Lieut. Col., and Jo. D. Wilson, Major. The 
regiment was at Port Hudson engaged in its defence until its 
surrender. Its next service was at Jackson, Miss., under Gen. 
Jo. Johnston. In the Federal attack on the Confederates, Col. 
R. A. Owens, in command of the 46th, led his regiment with 
skill and courage, and was himself badly wounded. The regi- 
ment was next sent to the defense of Mobile, and continued 
this service until the opening of the Georgia campaign of 1864. 

MURFREESBORO. 

The 5th was with Stewart, ot Cheatham's Division, in the 
famous charge resulting id the capture of 3 guns of the First 
Missouri battery. In this assault Dick Bennett, Robt. Mc- 
Crory, Geo. D. Coston and Link Ballard were killed. Elijah 
Moody and his brother, R. B. Olive, T. G. Morris, Tom Jones, 
the always reliable [. L Lemonds, and Baldy Atkins were 
wounded. On another part of the field Lieut. Frank M. Adams 
was wounded and disabled. ■ 

1 chicXmauga. 

At Chicamauga the 5th as a part of Strahl's brigade, was 
held as a reserve, and at a critical time enabled Cheatham to 
maintain himself under-the most perilous circumstances. 

The battle ot Chicamauga was one of the greatest of mod- 
ern times. A battle in which the State of Tennessee had of 
infantry, artillery and cavalry, eighty-seven organizations, a 
larger number than any state in the South, and a larger number 
than ;.ny state of the North furnished the Federal army. The 
sons of Henry County were in all arms of the service, and I say 
it with pride that the Knighthood of the county was in flower 
that day. Gid Comer was killed, Peter McDaniel lost a leg, 



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and James Pillow, W. H. Allen, W. C. Alexander and others 

were wounded. 

MISSION RIDGE. 

The splendid Captain Joseph T. Kendall, Peter Kennedy, 
Marcus D. Milam, W. H. Barbee, Joseph Jordan and Phillip 
Kennerly were killed. Capt. Elijah Foust, John R. Peeples, 
Polk Alexander and Richard Brevard were wounded. 

RESACA. 

The galiant Capt. Ward and Dillard Beckwith were killed 
R. P. Kirby lost a leg, Maj. B. B. Bunch, Lieutenant Sidebot- 
tom and Nathan Williamj were wounded. Jeff Broach was 3 
times wounded at Resaca and killed at Peach Tree Creek a few 
weeks later on. 

In the campaign thence to Atlanta.. Capt Wm. Caldwell, 
of the 33d regiment, Aaron Pinson (three times wounded and 
subsequestly killed), John House, A. A. Hope and Owen 
Dunlap were killed. On the 28th of May in a heavy skirmish 
Col. Jonathan J. Lamb, commanding the 5th, was mortally 
wounded and died in a day or two. He was a courageous 
officer and had won promotion from the ranks to the command 
of his regiment About the same time James Rainey, Aaron 
Pinson and Julian Frazier (admirable soldiers) were killed, the 
gallant Lieutenant J. W. Howard, Lieut. Hudson and Matt 
Dinwiddie were wounded, (Hudson mortally), Ben Kendall, 
who died recently lost an arm, Barney Daniel, B. A. Hagood, 
F. G. Trousdale, James Owens, Polk Diggs, J. L. Lemonds, J. 
L. Brake, Jo. J. Adams (wounded twice), M. B. Alexander, 
M. B. Dinwiddie, Samuel Allen, H. Doughty, Capt. B. F. 
Peeples, J. M. Coffman, G. W. Poyner, John and Pack Orr. 
Jno. R. Crosswell (affectionately called "the old chief" by his 
comrades), Doc Edwards, Marshall Sanlord, Kli Compton, 
Thomas Kirkland, C. M. Kennerly, David C. Baucum and 
Robert Carson were seriously wounded Polk Lauson, Frank 



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Robertson and Newton Fields were also among the killed. 

Capt. Wayne Caldwell, one of the most gallant spirits of 
the war. was mortally wounded in front of Atlanta on the 22d 
ot July. Near him fell the regimental color bearer, Ab. Din- 
widdie. one of the best and most admired soldiers of the regi- 
ment. His colors were always to the fore and could always be 
seen. It was at Mission Ridge after our lines had been broken 
that Gen. Stewart called upon him to deliver the flag to him 
that he might form his broken ranks upon it. "No, said Din- 
widdie. not to you or any man, when the flag was placed in my 
hands I was ordered never to surrender it." "You are right," 
said the General, "plant your colors here on this elevation and 
let the men form upon it." "That order," said the noble 
Dinwiddie, "will be obeyed." 

At New Hope Church Newton Taylor was killed, Capt. 
Sam W. Cochran and Lieut. F. M. Hastings, of the 46th, and 
G. Atkins, of the 154th, were wounded. It was here that the 
46th re-inforced Lowry, of Cleburne's Division, when he was 
hard pressed and received his thanks for the timely assistance. 
Col. R. A. Owens was in command. 

On the 28th of July the enemy siezed the Lick skillet road, 
Lee's corps was ordered to check their movements, a fierce and 
disastrous battle was fought, in which the 46th participated, 
Col. Owens in command, although he carried one arm in a sling. 
Gen Walthall said it made a bloody assault, but he said too, 
success was not possible. Lieut. Col. Joseph D. Wilson feil 
here and was reported among the killed. "He tell", said his 
brigade commander, "in the front leading his regiment on the 
enemy's works." Louis Smotherman was killed. Geo. Horace 
Jackson, Wm. T. Mathis and Newton Vancleave were mortally 
wounded and died on the field. Billy Pillow lost an arm. Capt. 
W. H. Wilson, A. M. Wilson, W. C. Wilson, Seth Speight, 



Doc Speight, Wm Wilson, H. Hannah and Thos. Brisendine 
were wounded. 

Henry C. McNeill, Major and Lieut. Col. of the 33d Ten- 
nessee, was killed in front of Atlanta. He had been conspicu- 
ous in all the battles of the South-west. He was often in com- 
mand of his regiment. He was thoroughly drilled, and main- 
tained discipline* under all circumstances. In command of the 
brigade skirmish line at Mission Ridge, in a moment of panic, 
he exhibited the great qualities of a soldier and by his coolness 
and promptness and knowledge of war, restored order and con- 
fidence and saved his command. At Kennesaw Mountain he 
was especially distinguished and complimented by the division 
General. When he met his death he was in the forefront of 
the battle leading his regiment upon the lines of the enemy. 

Those two splendid soldiers, Col. Owens and Lieut. Col. 
Wilson, of the 46th, were disabled and saw no further service 
after the 28th of July. 

JONESBORO. 

Nat Bowman (beloved by his comrades), Lieut. Hogg, 
Andrew Hall, Henry Johnston and Jas. English were killed. 
Richard Williams, Wm. Stanfield, Bloom Boden, W. D. Hen- 
dricks, Green Seaton, Thos. Jones and George Upchurch were 
wounded. George Poyner lost one of his feet, carried away by 
a cannon ball. J. P. Diggs was mortally wounded and died on 
the field. 

Gen. Cheatham was sick. The division realized the value 
of his presence and noted his absence. Other disadvantages 
were conspicuous, still the men of Henry did not fail in their 
duty. 

After Jonesboro the Army of Tennessee was moved to 
Tennessee. On the 30th of November, 1864, it attacked the 
enemy at Franklin behind a solid line of earthworks. Here 
was the crucible where the men of Henry were to be tried as 



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they had never been tried before. The field was an open one, 
the works defended by a superior force. 

" Was there a man dismayed? 
Not, though the soldiers knew 

Some one had blundered: 
Theirs not to make reply, 
Theirs not to reason why, 
Theirs but to do and die.'" 

General Cox, of the Federal Army, writing of our advance, 
said : " The Confederates were seen coming in splendid array. 
The sight was one to send a thrill through the heart, and those 
who saw it have never forgotten its martial magnificence " 

It was, all things considered, the most disastrous field of 
the war. The 5th had been engaged in all the battles I have 
named, the 46th had been at New Hope and the Lickskillet 
road and many minor combats, but the test was to come at 
Franklin. Both regiments were equal to this, the greatest 
demand upon their valor. When General Cheatham, under 
Hood's orders gave the command for the whole line to advance 
I saw tears in great drops roll down the bronzed cheeks of that 
veteran soldier as he said : " It is a mistake, and it is no com- 
fort to me to say we are not responsible for it." 

The flower of Tennessee went down on that fateful day. 
Maj. S. C. Cooper was in command of the 46th ; Col. A. J. 
Kellar, of the 4th, was in command of the 4th and 5th consoli- 
dated. In the assault by Quarles' Brigade Major Cooper won 
distinction. He led his men up to the enemy's works, where 
his color-bearer, Paul Sullivan, planted his flag. Cooper by his 
side was the fore leader ol the regiment. He carried the men 
over the works of the enemy, where he was shot down ; by his 
side was the gallant Capt. P. M. Hope killed, his brother, 
Lieut. W. L. Hope, shot thirteen times and died in a day or 
two. That fine gentleman and captain, Campbell McGehee, 
was killed inside the enemy's line. Lieut. M. V. B. Valentine 
was badly wounded. Thomas Lankford was killed, and Paul 



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Sullivan wounded. The Hopes were brothers of Adam Hope, 
killed at Lickskillet road, on the 28th of July. E. P. Adams 
was killed inside of the enemy's works. K. Cooper, C. M. 
Kennerly, William Mathis, Newton Vancleave, Jack Scarbor- 
ough, Marion Gregston and E. G. Seaton were wounded and 
captured. Fitzgerald Williams, of the 154th, was wounded. 

E P. Adams, called "Zeke" by his comrades, was a 
brother to Lieut. Frank Adams and Jo Adams, both of Co. F, 
1 54th regiment. 

Dr Thos. C. Simmans, killed at Tishimingo Creek, was 
one of five brothers, all gallant soldiers, given to our service 
by their noble mother, Adaline Irion Simmans. 

Mrs. Hope gave five sons to her country's service, three 
killed in battle, two of them on the bloody field of Franklin. 

Cornelia, the famous Roman matron, gave two sons to her 
country, but not better soldiers than the sons of Mrs. Adams, 
Mrs. Hope and Mrs. Simmans 

The 5th run over the enemy's outer line held by two bri- 
gades, those who escaped run into the inner line with our own 
troops and thus the 5th escaped annihilation. When daylight 
dawned on the morning following the battle I looked down 
upon the upturned faces of 1,000 dead Tennesseans. When 
can their glory fade? "The cause for which they fought and 
died is lost. The people for whom they perished are crushed. 
The hopes in which they trusted are shattered. The flag r they 
loved guides no more their charging lines. But their fame in 
the years to come will fire modest worth to noble ends." 

Company G, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, was commanded by 
Capt. Felin F. Aden. That stalwart soldier, John J. Blake, 
was first lieutenant ; Ben. Diggs was second lieutenant. It 
served first under Colonel Jackson, then under General Chal- 
mers, and participated in the fight between the armies com- 
manded by Rosecrans and Van Dorn at Corinth. It was with 
Forrest at Tishimingo Creek, where Frank Wakeland and Dr. 



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Tom C. Simmans were killed with a number wounded. At 
Harrisburg the company entered the fight with 27 men, the 
Captain himself wounded, led off the field eleven men, Lieut. 
Diggs, Lieut. James Haynes, Morris Warmick, Reuben Van- 
dyck and S. Fields were killed. Theo. Erwin and others were 
wounded The company was with Forrest in all of his cam- 
paigns after 1862. In the campaign to Middle Tennessee, 
1864-5, that valiant soldier, Lieut. Blake, was fearlully wound- 
ed and disabled. The company saw the hardest and most ex- 
acting service, and at its surrender, the Captain, H. A. Hum 
phreys, and Thomas Diggs of the original company answered 
to roll call. 

Lieut. Col. Henry C. Greer recruited a battalion of cavalry 
after serving for a year as a Lieutenant of the 5th infantry. 
Subsequently the battallion constituted a part of the 20th cav- 
alry. Alter 1863 it was a part of Forrest's famous cavalry and 
was in all of his battles, combats and skirmishes. Capt. W. D. 
Hallum commanded Co. E., Capt. M. H. Freeman command- 
ed Co. K., Capt. J. C. Crutchfieid Co. F., succeeding Capt. J. 
C. Wilson (who was killed leading the advance at Fort Pillow), 
was killed at Harrisburg. Capt. M. H. Freeman, whose re- 
cent untimely death was such a shock to his friends and com- 
rades, was promoted from Lieutenant to Captain. At Esta- 
naula, his first combat, Lieut. A. J Killebrew was wounded, 
and Lieut. T. J. Buntyn and Fauney Bradley were killed. 
John Beard was killed at Fort Pillow, J. K Killebrew, Charley 
Beard, Ned Palmer. — Kiddle were killed at Harrisburg, Sam 
Fiser, Calvin Kennedy, Jack Pentecost, Tolbert Williams, 
Simpson Moore, John Sexton and Lieut. Wm. Ridgeway were 
wounded. In this battle Freeman's company was only 27 
strong, nine were killed, nine were • wounded and the same 
number reported for duty. 

Capt, Hallum lost 32 men in killed and wounded in the 
several battles fought under Forrest. Among them was our 



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well-known fellow citizen, Mace H. Lankford, who was sup- 
posed to have been mortally wounded. He died two years ago. 
The gallant Captain was wounded at Brice's Cross Roads nm P+~ 
Tishimingo Creek. 

Capt. Thos. H. Tayloe commanded Co. D. of Newsom's 
cavalry. He led his company at Tishimingo Creek, Harris- 
burg, and was with Forrest in his famous Tennessee campaign. 
The Captain was wounded at Harrisburg where Eldorado Bar 
ton, Henry Jones and Henry Price, and others were killed. 
The company was a fighting one. It lost between thirty and . 
forty killed and wounded. 

In the combat at Okalona George M. Porter, after a few 
days of service, was killed. J. W. Cole, another youthful 
soldier, fell at Tishimingo Creek. William H. Porter, cadet in 
the regular army of the Confederate States, doing duty with 
Forrest's cavalry, fell at Tishimingo Creek, his own horse was 
killed, he secured a remount and advancing to the line of fire 
received a mortal wound. 

Capt. Thomas Kennedy Porter, promoted to Major for 
gallant conductat^oft Donelson, was the senior artillery offi- 
cer of the c-e»¥p*M*y,^it Fort Donelson he commanded Porter's 
battery. Col. Roger Hanson, of Kentucky, reporting the at- 
tacks upon his line said, "In resisting these attacks I was 
greatly assisted by Porter's battery. It always fired at the 
right time and to the right place." Gen'l. Floyd commanding 
the army, Gen. Buckner and Gen. Brown all testified to his 
skill and gallantry. Capt. Porter was wounded and disabled 
for months, rejoining the army he was again wounded at 
Hoover's Gap, subsequently he commanded a battalion of artil 
lery with distinction at Chicamauga. It was his guns that check- 
ed the advance of Federal reinforcements which enabled Bush- 
rod Johnson to penetrate their lines and win the battle. After 
this date he returned to the naval service in which he was edu- 
cated, and became executive officer of the Confederate cruiser, 



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Florida. He was one of four brothers in the service, of whom 
Cadet Wm. H. Porter killed at Tishimingo Creek was one, the 
others were Surgeon Jo H. Porter, of the 5th, and Adjutant 
Gen. Jas. D Porter, of Cheatham's Division and army corps. 

Lieut. George McNeill, 3d company Washington artillery, 
was fearfully wounded at Antietam. He participated in the 
seven days battles around Richmond, was at Fredericksburg, 
2d Manassas, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Petersburg, Appo- 
mattox, and was a conspicuous soldier on all of these historic 
fields. He was promoted from private to Sergeant and then to 
Lieutenant. 

Alonzo Pillow was promoted from private to Lieutenant in 
Hume's heavy artillery, a part of the garrison assigned to the 
defense of Mobile, Ala. 

Finis E. White was promoted from private to Lieutenant 
of Carne's battery. He was an ideal soldier. His battery par- 
ticipated in all of the battles of the South-west. He was 
wounded at Chicamauga. 

John H. Dunlap was a Sergeant in Morton's battery and 
shared the glory of that famous company. He was wounded 
at Harrisburg and died from the effects of it five years later. 

John T. Postlethwaite was a Sergeant in Rucker's heavy 
battery and served gallantly at Island 10, where he was 
wounded. 

Ladies of the Monumental Association, I have recited to 
you the names of some of my comrades whose actions you per- 
petuate by the erection of this monument No knightlier soldiers 
ever went out to battle for their country, no soldier ever had a 
cause worthier of the supreme effort they made, no cause ever 
promoted greater enthusiasm, no cause ever demanded greater 
sacrifices, no cause was ever so loyally sustained. We cannot 
forget them, we cannot forget the sacrifices or the devotion of 
the women of the South, they accepted poverty that they might 
promote the cause for which their fathers, husbands and sons 



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fought and died. History with its splendid recitals cannot fur- 
nish illustrations like the self denial of our own wives, mothers, 
daughters and sisters. We can not forget them, we cannot for- 
get that in the hour of defeat, when we were crushed by a dis- 
aster not to be measured by words, they gave us good cheer 
and welcome, and next to the Great Dispenser of every good 
and perfect gift, they gave us comfort and encouragement, and 
stimulated acquiescense in the result of the war, and encour- 
aged all to a manly effort in the peaceful walks of life. 

Remembering this, and mindful of that ever present and 
greater obligation, I ask you to join me in the recital of a half 
dozen lines from Kipling's Victorian Ode. 

" God of our fathers, known of old, 
Lord of our far flung battle line, 
Beneath whose awful hand we hold 
Dominion over palm and pine, 
Lord of Hosts, be with us yet, 
Lest we forget, lest we forget." 

And now, ladies of the Monumental Association, I thank 
you again in the name of my comrades, living and dead, for 
providing this appropriate monnment. 

I will now ask Miss Mary Vandyck, the daughter of one 
of our comrades, the niece of comrade Reuben Vandyck, who 
fell at Harrisburg, to unveil the monument, where it will stand 
in its beauty and be a perpetual inspiration to our own, and 
to the generations to come. 















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